Have your say: As the Church of England votes to approve women bishops, do you
approve of the change?

Members of the Church of England’s General Synod will gather in York today to vote on the ordination of women bishops –but what are your thoughts on the move?

There are very few areas in society were women are officially banned. Thirty years after our first female Prime Minister and with women on the board of every FTSE 100 company, the Church of England still insists that women cannot be bishops.

Is this an outdated relic? After all, the Bible makes no mention of bishops—male or female. So why shouldn’t women take on roles of religious leadership?

Some argue that it’s shameful this decision is still controversial in 2014. The Church faced fierce criticism when a similar vote failed to pass less than two years ago, in November 2012.

But others say that religious practice shouldn’t be affected by social attitudes. Jesus’s disciples were all men and there’s been 2,000 years of male leadership in the Church—is there any real need to change?

What do you think? Would you like to have a woman bishop and would you support the change?